Absent Quote by Roland Barthes

To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire…

— Laozi

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

— Anonymous

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in…

— T. S. Eliot

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

— Patti Smith

Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of…

— Wendy Farley

Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.

— Walter Raleigh

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for…

— Tom Robbins

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

— Seth Godin

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

— Zadie Smith

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

— Douglas Horton

“To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true…

— Lawrence Crane

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater